Another thousand uncounted ballots appear in Florida

Seven days after the election ended, and two days after the results were unofficially certified, Broward elections workers Monday said they had found 963 unaccounted-for ballots in a warehouse. They were put in the wrong place, members of the Broward County Canvassing Board were told on Monday. "How can you lose them? This is terrible,'' said Dania Beach candidate Chickie Brandimarte, whose close race won't be called until at least Tuesday.

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Meanwhile in the Wesr election around 17,000 votes were recounted and Wesr picked up 500 votes. County is refusing to recount the rest.

re: Another thousand uncounted ballots appear in Florida (Posted on 11/13/12 at 10:39 am to PRK)

quote:Moral of the story: the U.S.A. is still a clusterfrick.

how can you appreciate a system in which each vote doesn't matter? elections are determined on projections and the loser concedes prior to every vote being counted. then, most places stop counting the votes.

re: Another thousand uncounted ballots appear in Florida (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:24 am to wavebreaker)

Regardless of who the fraud may or may not benefit, the fact that it could so easily be fixed and is not is what is truly sad. Districts in OH have more registered voters than residents. No problem, nothing to see here.

Issue every voter ID/Voter card they have to present to vote. Dont have your card? Then you have to prove your residency in that precinct via drivers license and/or bills, something else. Ill gladly wait a few more mins when voting if it means we are making sure that only people who can vote are voting.

And really, why in 2012 are we still using paper ballots? If the "cloud" is safe enough to do all of our commerce in, would it really be too crazy to switch everything to electronic voting machines? No recounts, "hanging chads", etc.

quote:However, Ohio has yet to finish counting its provisional ballots, along with some mail ballots that were postmarked before Election Day but had yet to reach their precincts.

That could add about 325,000 ballots to the state’s total, bringing turnout there close to its 2008 levels. In Pennsylvania, there may be more of a true decline, although about two dozen precincts in Philadelphia had yet to report their results as of Monday morning.

As the rest of the votes come in from California, Mr. Obama could add about 700,000 more votes in his margin against Mr. Romney, assuming that the remaining votes are divided between the candidates in about the same proportions as the ones counted so far.

Those votes could be enough to push Mr. Obama’s margin of victory in the national popular vote, reported at 2.7 percent as of Monday morning, to slightly higher than 3 percent.

Just because votes haven't been counted doesn't mean they're all for Romney.